Whole Schooling
The Journey Towards Schools
Where Diverse Students Learn Together Well

CHAPTER 6

Partner with Families and the Community

Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.

• Family, Child, And System Centered Services: What About My School? Activity Tool 6-2 and b provides space for respondents to consider ways in which their school is family, child, or system centered. This can be useful in stimulating discussion regarding these approaches.
• Family-Centered Principles And Practices. Activity Tool 6-3 asks respondents to evaluate the degree to which their school engages in practices based on family-centered principles discussed in chapter 3.
• Assets And Deficit-Based Neighborhood Maps. Activity Tool 6-4 asks respondents to describe assets or strengths in their local community to which a school may connect as well as deficits. It can be used to stimulate discussion and understanding of the principle of identifying and building on strengths rather than focusing on deficits.